David Peoples
David Peoples (born February 9, 1940, Middletown, United States), aged 86, is an American screenwriter. Peoples's honours include Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay.
David Peoples’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Metal Dragon, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with David
David Peoples’s AsterNym identity
The Tidal Lightkeeper
Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name David in the U.S.?
#35
US rank in 2025
~3,689,613
Americans share it since 1880
1955
its peak year
David ranked 7th among boys and 762nd among girls in 1940, the year of this birth, with 27,690 American boys and 84 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What David’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
11
Expression · sensing what is coming
8
Soul Urge · achievement
3
Personality · bright, quick
The name opens on D (4) and closes on D (4). The value it repeats most is 4, which numerology reads as craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
David’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 1 · 6
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Saturday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Magnolia
Violet · Ivory · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets David apart
David Peoples took the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1983, at 43.
Training came by way of University of California, Berkeley.
On the family side, David Peoples was married Janet Peoples.
Wikipedia's editors put David Peoples under People from Middletown, Connecticut, Screenwriters from Connecticut and UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni.
The same date carries J. M. Coetzee. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Awards
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1983) and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay (1992)
- Nominated for
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 16
What the chart says
David, according to the stars
Core essence
David is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of David is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.
How David wants to be loved
David wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with David, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How David creates
How David makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. David creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.
Instinct
Instinct: David is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. David is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means David gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from David's birth date. Working below.
Where David sits
Six lines
David’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to David Peoples
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Middletown on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Middletown that night
Computed for 41.56°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Middletown at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 6.5° of the exact zenith.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 41.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −48.4° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
The Moon, 3% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.
How unusual David's chart is
Chart pattern score
57 / 100 · Unusual
Yod onto Neptune · Yod onto Neptune
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →David Peoples at a glance
Aquarius Sun
Aquarius SunOriginal, and fine with it.
David Peoples's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 9, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aquarius means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
David Peoples was born on February 9, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Asks the better question.
David Peoples's birth date, February 9, 1940, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in David’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in David Peoples' date-only chart is Mercury sextile Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- David Peoples combines a Water Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Tidal Lightkeeper.
David’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 29° to 10° Aquarius or Pisces depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMercurysextileSaturn0.0° to 1.3° orb
David’s mind opens doors for their discipline.
stableMarsconjunctionSaturn0.8° to 1.4° orb
David’s drive and discipline act as one.
stableMercurysextileMars1.0° to 2.2° orb
David’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableSunsquareUranus1.2° to 2.2° orb
stableVenusoppositionNeptune1.3° to 2.5° orb
stableVenustrinePluto3.8° to 5.1° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto5.2° to 5.3° orb
stableMarssquarePluto6.0° to 6.7° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto6.1° to 6.4° orb
stableSunconjunctionMercury6.4° to 7.2° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune6.9° to 7.0° orb
possibleMoonsextileSaturnorb from 2.9° to 14.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
David’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 14°59′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Virgo 17°54′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 5°52′ (moves 0.66° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 20°23′ (moves 0.38° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithPisces 16°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres trine Uranus 0.2°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 0.6°
- Eros trine Jupiter 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 1.8°
- Hygiea square Uranus 2.3°
David’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars7 pts
in its own sign, Aries; disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects
2. ♅ Uranus7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts
traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects
Configurations in David’s chart
Yod onto Neptune · Mercury, Mars, NeptuneTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.- Yod onto Neptune · Mercury, Saturn, NeptuneTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mars quincunx Neptune 0.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.4°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.8°
- Venus semi-sextile Saturn 0.8°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 1.1°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 1.3°
- Mercury quincunx Neptune 1.6°
- Venus semi-sextile Mars 2.0°
Born the same day as David
J. M. Coetzee was born on February 9, 1940 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Middletown sits at 41.6°N, far enough north that Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.
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Fellow Aquarius suns
- J. M. CoetzeeSouth African and Australian writer and scholar
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Born in Dragon years
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- Roberto CavalliItalian fashion designer
Also born on February 9
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- Sócrates1954
- Michael B. Jordan1987
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Fellow Yang Water day masters
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- Neil DiamondAmerican recording artist; singer-songwriter
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Other Aquarius Dragon charts
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Other Tidal Lightkeepers
- DeForest BucknerAmerican football player (born 1994)
- Jaquan BriskerAmerican football player (born 1999)
- Brenden SchoolerAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Keenan AllenAmerican football player
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Melinda GatesAmerican philanthropist
- Hugh GrantBritish actor
- Kristen BellAmerican actress
From the journal: Inner, outer and secret animals: the Four Pillars connection · The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works
David’s cards
Computed from February 9, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The TowerAsterNym identity card
The Tidal LightkeeperWestern zodiac
AquariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
7 · Seeker♄ Ruled by Saturn
Lead Pb
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Water.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
寅
Tiger
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
David’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q1177114 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
The same David Peoples at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by David Peoples.
Quick answers about David Peoples’s chart
- How old is David Peoples?
- David Peoples is 86 years old, born February 9, 1940 in Middletown, United States.
- What zodiac sign is David Peoples?
- David Peoples is an Aquarius: born February 9, 1940, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
- What is David Peoples's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 9, 1940 birth.
- What is David Peoples's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is David Peoples's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Cancer at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is David Peoples's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Pisces at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is David Peoples's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: in its own sign, Aries; disposes Jupiter, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Uranus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
